The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 82
And now the most extraordinary thing happened, for from this moment everything in the old man’s house was changed.
Who acts: extraordinary thing · What happens: happen, change · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extraordinary thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happened | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 happened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 extraordinary | advmod |
| 5 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 changed | mark |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 everything | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | aux:pass |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the extraordinary thing | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | everything | moment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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